Back hopelessness Scale INTRODUCTION Background and development The back hopelessness scale(BHS; Beck’ weissman, lester, &trexler, 1974) IS A 20 item scale for measuring the extent of negative attitude about the future (pessimism)as perceived by adolescents and adult. The BHS was originally developed by Aron T. Beck and his associates the center for cognitive theropy (CCT), University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Department of psychiatry, to measure pessimism in psychiatric patients consider tobe suicidal risks, but it has been used subsequently with adolescent and adult normal population. Hopelessness is a psychological construct that has been observed to underlie a variety of mental health disorder. After reviewing the literature on the hopelessness construct. Stotland (1969) concluded that although many cliniciansbelievedthat hopelessness wastoodifuse to be measured systematically, there was sufficient consensus to construct an instrument to evaluate negative attit...
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